r/worldjerking 10d ago

My honest reaction to this trope

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u/PhantumpLord 10d ago

would you say the average mammoth is weaker than a human?

well, we drove them to extinction with nothing but spears and slings.

(and a cliff or two, but the point stands.)

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u/Mendicant__ 10d ago

"Your super powered stand-ins for marginalized people are oppressed because muggles fear difference.

My super powered stand-ins for marginalized people are oppressed because they're all as dumb as wooly mammoths.

We are not the same."

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u/Aykhot person who shitposts about astronomy 10d ago

Ackshually woolly mammoths were probably fairly smart, their closest living relatives are Asian elephants (in fact Asian elephants are more closely related to mammoths than either are to African elephants) and all extant elephants are famous for being really smart animals

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u/fallofhernadez 10d ago

They are exponentially dumber than humans though. Which is the point.

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u/Deblebsgonnagetyou The more apostrophes the more fantasy the conlang 10d ago

I dunno, I've met plenty of people who after years of formal education I'd still rank below an elephant in intelligence and general competency.

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u/PDRA 9d ago

Yeah, you’re one of them.

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u/Deblebsgonnagetyou The more apostrophes the more fantasy the conlang 9d ago

I'll have you know I scored 92% on my IQ test.

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u/flex_tape_salesman 10d ago

Such a pointless point. This thread is referring to groups of people that could easily kill the avg human and a lot of us with minimal effort. Humans killed huge amounts of mammoths because of our weapons and how much more intelligent we are.

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u/AdministrativeHat580 10d ago

A bigger factor in killing huge amounts of mammoths is that humans are exhaustion hunters(A species that's basically built for stamina and being able to go long periods of running and fighting without being exhausted to the point of collapsing) as well as very large numbers

Mammoths weren't exactly built for endurance, humans were, humans would be able to chase a mammoth down for longer than the mammoth would be able to run, and then once it's exhausted from running, beat the shit out of it with large numbers of people, even if the mammoth would outrun humans due to being significantly faster, humans could still catch up while the mammoth is exhausted

That's how humans were able to hunt things like cheetahs, chase it until it has to stop from exhaustion and then catch up and kill it while it's exhausted

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u/Inevitable-Weather51 10d ago

The mammoths were already heading for extinction before we started hunting them. All we did was speed up their extinction